Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said he has been backing aggressive action against Serbia since last March, but the administration and NATO have done nothing. "The genocide has been taking place. The damage has been done," Lott said. "Now and only now they prepare to take serious action. I think that is curious...
...closed-door briefings to members of Congress last week, the administration generally found bipartisan support for threatened NATO airstrikes aimed at protecting civilians in Kosovo. But several lawmakers said airstrikes alone would not be enough, that ground troops would have to be dispatched to keep the peace...
...diplomatic solution includes "putting a few more people on the ground from NATO to make sure the peace is kept, then I'm for it," said House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.)on ABC's "This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts." "This is the new world we are in: We are peace-keepers, and we have to help the world do that...
...Kosovo is far and away the worst of the current crises. Vowing not to permit another slaughter like Bosnia's, the NATO allies threatened Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic last June with air strikes unless he halted his security forces' attacks on the rebellious Albanians. Even if Clinton hadn't been bedeviled by scandal, the threat would have been difficult to carry out. France refused to go along with military action unless the U.N. Security Council approved, and Russia promised to veto any resolution that authorized...
Washington was also stuck in internal wrangling. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wanted the White House to push harder for NATO military action, but Defense Secretary William Cohen balked, fearing air strikes would only embolden the Kosovo Liberation Army, then at the peak of its strength and demanding an independent state, which Washington opposed. Clinton was too distracted to knock bureaucratic heads or force the allies to carry out their threat. The indecision "proved to be a disaster," says a U.S. diplomat. "Milosevic took the measure of the West and decided he could take advantage...